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Most disturbing film you've ever seen?

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Mdk7

Member
VAD said:
Raw (2017)

Holy shit what the hell was that. A coming of age story with meat.
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I absolutely want to see this one.

As to answer the OP, I'd probably say Martyrs too.
And also Cannibal Holocaust, my favorite movie ever.
 
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Chained Prometheus

Member
SomTervo said:
Audition

And funnily enough Mulholland Drive. Just for the Winkie's scene and the body scene.

Way intense.

Edit: oh yeah ^ mysterious skin was heavy going
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Yeah, Audition is my answer too.

Got to see it on the big screen last year for my Horror film class, and while it was a personal fave for me, it was verrrrryyyyyy unsettling to see.
 
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William Bonney

Banned
Bad Lieutenant
The Basketball Diaries
Sleepers

I don't really know what the most disturbing I have seen is, but these are all pretty messed up movies that I haven't seen mentioned yet.
 
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Leeroy605

Member
Sexually Aggressive Uncle said:
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August Underground Mordum. Everyone involved in this can seriously fuck right off. Awful stuff and definitely not recommend.
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Just read the 'parents guide' on IMDB for that film. Seriously what the fuck? Who thinks of these things?
 
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Cabal

Member
Keihart said:
The infamous trilogy, Simpathy for Mr. Vengance, Oldboy and Lady Vengance.
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All of these movies are really well done. In the 'most disturbing ever' category, I'm not sure any of them hold a candle to some of the films being mentioned, but these three are really good films overall.
 
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Fancy Clown

Member
I had a double dose of disturbing the last two nights. I watched The Blackcoat's Daughter (written and directed by Anthony Perkins son) and then Fire Walk With Me.
 
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Aske

Member
Megan is Missing by a fucking country mile. I say this having seen most of the suggestions in the thread. Gummo would be my next choice, but it's a distant second.

MiM is the only movie that has left me feeling unclean after witnessing it.
 
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AudioNoir

Banned
I wish there was a database like "Does the Dog Die", but for babies/kids in movies :(

So many I'd like to sit and watch, but I can't handle that stuff like I used to.
 
mhayes86

mhayes86

Member
Cabal said:
All of these movies are really well done. In the 'most disturbing ever' category, I'm not sure any of them hold a candle to some of the films being mentioned, but these three are really good films overall.
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I agree. Some of the summaries that have been posted here are things that are already making me feel uncomfortable just from reading. Nothing in Park Chan-wook's "vengeance trilogy" stands out to me as incredibly disturbing. In Oldboy, perhaps
the incest reveal
, but that's nothing compared to what I've been reading her. Lady Vengeance is the most disturbing of the three, IMO, with
all of the parents of murdered children torturing the kidnapper/killer
.
 
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Steamlord

Member
I've seen my share of fucked up shit, but Salo still takes the cake for me. It's not as graphic as a lot of other movies, but it's so well made, and it's just so cold and clinical.

In a Glass Cage is another that's not super graphic but man there are a couple of scenes that are difficult to get through.
Those child killings, man...

As for real stuff, Brakhage's The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes was hard to watch. I think it's because it just felt so impersonal.
 
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Icolin

Banned
Salo, but Martyrs comes close.

purseowner said:
I've seen Salo, I've seen Irreversible, but the most distressing film to me is Where The Wild Things Are.
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Where The Wild Things Are isn't disturbing to me, but goddamn is it depressing and sad as fuck; made me really miss my childhood, which not a lot of movies can do to me. Love it.
 
eot

eot

Banned
mhayes86 said:
I agree. Some of the summaries that have been posted here are things that are already making me feel uncomfortable just from reading. Nothing in Park Chan-wook's "vengeance trilogy" stands out to me as incredibly disturbing.
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It's the most disturbing film I've seen, which was the question. I'm sure there are worse films out there, I don't seek them out so I wouldn't know. If you don't find those movies disturbing I don't know what to say.
 
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Magus1234

Member
I watched Raw, it was not really disturbing. Actually the way they made it was almost comical. Eat(2015?) was more fucked up and in the same vein. Besides the obvious, one movie I always thought was pretty wacked was King of Ants.
 
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Secret Fawful

Member
I don't think anything can ever top Singapore Sling for me.

The, uh, plot synopsis on Wikipedia:

When first glimpsed the psychotic mother-daughter protagonists, half-dressed, are burying their disemboweled chauffeur in a pit they have just finished to dig in their backyard on a dark and stormy night under the thunder and heavy rain. They lay a shovel and drag out of the bushes his fresh corpse, put to death in one of their usual games combining incestuous sex with murder. Shortly after this and at first unnoticed by the two women a lovesick detective pulls his car up to the residence, suffering from a painful bullet wound and an equally painful yearning to track down Laura, his long-missing beloved for whom he has been searching for three years and about whom it is known that she has visited the area. What he does not know is that he has stumbled onto the lair of two profoundly insane women who have already lured Laura into their home and brutally killed her (in the process decorating their kitchen with her viscera, as a flashback helpfully shows). It is also revealed that the daughter is physically very similar to Laura and is desperately looking for a man's companionship. The film's protagonist's search for a woman named Laura is a direct reference to the classic film noir Laura (1944) by American director Otto Preminger. The film uses as background music, in addition to classical music by Sergei Rachmaninoff and Giaches de Wert, the compositions used by Glenn Miller and Julie London in Laura (1944).

The duo then easily take the seriously wounded and bleeding detective, having already figured them out to be responsible for Laura's kidnapping, into their home, essentially kidnapping him. As the exhausted detective was silent and apparently refuses to speak, even in order to state his own name, the two women christen him Singapore Sling after they discover a recipe in his pocket notebook for that type of cocktail and seem quite content with that arrangement. They use him as a pawn in their sexually tinged role-playing games and as a party to their distorted and perverse form of entertainment, during which Singapore Sling, now a prisoner, is tied up, chained to a bed, vomited on, electrocuted, used as a sex slave, and subjected to various other forms of torture and atrocities in which he is forced to participate. However, as Singapore Sling's confinement wears on he regains his strength and takes a more active role in the games. His deranged captors become concerned and alarmed when a sharp kitchen knife, belonging to the late father, goes missing and they discover Singapore Sling digging a deep hole in their backyard. As psychotic as these two are, they are still lucid enough to recognize that a killing is imminent, if not two or even three. In an atmosphere of decadence and dark madness, the characters gradually sink into the depths of their subconscious mind.

A few days later the daughter decides that she is fed up with having to suffer under the yoke of maternal authority, and, together with Singapore Sling, murders her mother. Singapore Sling then takes what up until now used to be the mother's role in the sexual games. However, during one of these games, a reenactment of Laura's murder, he stabs the daughter, playing Laura, with the aforementioned missing kitchen knife now attached to his penis. The daughter, while bleeding to death, shoots Singapore Sling and then he goes out to the garden and falls into the pit which he himself had recently dug. The film hence ends, in short, with all three characters dead.
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I never finished it. It was too much for me. I don't generally watch movies like this anyway. Outside of that High Tension, End of Evangelion, and Begotten all fucked me up pretty good and are all just gross.

Fire Walk With Me and Eraserhead are great films that also deeply unsettle me.
 
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Muskieratboi

Member
A Serbian Film.

Honestly, the family could have just talked it out, but noooo, the dad has to kill everyone at the end.

What a bastard.

There, I saved you the trouble of watching the movie. Stay Away from it.
 
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janoDX

Member
A Serbian Film and Guinea Pig - Flowers of Flesh and Blood

Also special mention to the Broken movie by NIN and Trent Reznor.
 
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robosllim

Member
Ragingbegal said:
Antichrist...
the jerkoff scene is something else.
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I've never turned a movie off because I couldn't stomach it until Antichrist. I managed to cringe my way through that scene, but once I saw
her reach down between her legs with a pair of scissors
I was just done. Doesn't help that it wasn't really engaging me with its plot anyway.

Martyrs is a disturbing movie that I actually enjoyed. Sleep Tight was emotionally disturbing with almost no violence, if you're looking for something different.
 
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Matty77

Member
Magus1234 said:
I watched Raw, it was not really disturbing. Actually the way they made it was almost comical. Eat(2015?) was more fucked up and in the same vein. Besides the obvious, one movie I always thought was pretty wacked was King of Ants.
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Ill second King of the Ants. Stuart Gordon on no budget with a cast that includes Norm from cheers and the forgotten Baldwin brother. Not especially gory if you go in expecting visual disturbing it's not really, especially since it has more in common with a cheap 70's revenge flick than gore horror or disturbing drama.

But the concepts are chilling and it's got some moments that are truly disturbing with a little thought.

My favorite scene and a prime example is
he's been locked up and beaten for so long that it gets to the point where they come in for his daily hit and he starts tieing the foam onto his head like a trained animal. Gives me chills just thinking of it.
 
V

VDenter

Banned
Battle Royale. Even though it was over the top at times, seeing kids kill each other is the definition of messed up.
 
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Stead Fast

Banned
For me, Men Behind the Sun is just haunting. I think, given what I've learnt about these events, I can't wholly separate the interpretation on display, and the actual atrocities committed to those people.

As for more fictitious films, I came across The Poughkeepsie Tapes on Youtube years ago, and whilst it clearly was steering for deliberate shock value, some of the torture scenes in that felt too real for my liking. Particularly this.
 
DeviantBoi

DeviantBoi

Member
I hate horror movies and especially torture porn, so haven't seen many.

I've read about and would never see movies like Human Centipede, Serbian Film, or Cannibal Holocaust.

I did see Hostel and that was enough for me.
 
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Billy_Pilgrim

Member
Not a proper film, but one of my favourite moments in Uni came immediately after we'd finished watching Artaud's Jet of Blood. It's a tiny little play, 3 and a half minutes, written in 1925. The confusion, fear and bewilderment on people's faces...it was amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYFz5_abtE8

Full thing there.

On similar lines, Marat/Sade.
 
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keltickennedy

Member
RoyaleDuke said:
Cannibal Holocaust.

I felt physically sick afterwards.

Also, fucking Oldboy.
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I will second Cannibal Holocaust. I remember watching it with friends in college. One of my buddies actually had to leave to throw up during the "dull rock cutting scene".

That movie was something else. Is it true that the director had to show a court that all the actors were still alive?
 
Raven117

Raven117

Member
I always thought the Angels Melancholy (whatever it is in German)...takes the taco as the most depraved sheet ever.
 
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Reeks

Member
Morgoth said:
Cannibal holocaust
Cannibal ferox
NEKROMANTIK/2
MATYERS
A SEBRIAN FILM
I own all of these on blu ray except A Seberian film. I found that one quite comical do to how over the top it is. Cannibal holocaust is one of my all-time​ favorite films. Its a fucking masterpiece.
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The original Martyrs.

The Silver said:
Men from Behind the Sun was something else.....

It's a movie about the atrocities of Unit 731
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Jombie said:
Happiness

Last House on the Left
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The original Last House on the Left

NewGame said:
Come And See
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Backfoggen said:
In A Glass Cage is a pretty fucked up movie
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blanchot said:
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Night and fog, 1956
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Infernostew said:
Cannibal Holocaust
Angst
Cutting Moments
Visitor Q
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The Douglas Buck short???? SO happy someone else knows about this!! Home is also pretty fucked.

crunchylightbulb said:
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Most things people are posting are fiction/narrative films. So here's easily one of the most disturbing documentaries I've ever seen. Genuinely upsetting.
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More additions:

Begotten by E. Elias Merhinge

The Grimm Sleeper by Nick Broomfield

The Act of Violence and The Look of Silence, both by Joshua Oppenheimer

An Open Secret by Amy Berg

Children of God: Lost and Found by John Smithson
 
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LookAtMeGo

Member
Muskieratboi said:
A Serbian Film.

Honestly, the family could have just talked it out, but noooo, the dad has to kill everyone at the end.

What a bastard.

There, I saved you the trouble of watching the movie. Stay Away from it.
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Pretty sure those guys that showed up at the end didn't plan on just letting them live a happy life after all that. They were better off dead IMO.
 
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